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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Lori Anderson of Pretty
Things and Bead Soup Café is again our gracious host. Many more have joined the
thralls and will join in on excitement, fun and loads of creativity! I have wondered if Lori had any clue, just how large this annual event would become in
the beading world when she brought it to fruition. At any rate, I owe her a
lot. I have gained much more from Bead Soup Blog Parties and friendships formed, than I will ever be able to contribute.

What is a bead soup you may
ask? Fair question, we are not born knowing these things. They are instead
shared and imparted to one another with love and the joy of celebrating the
creativity of others and ourselves. A bead soup generally consists of a focal piece, some
accent beads, a decorative clasp, and whatever else the maker of the soup
throws in the pot, so to speak.

Here is what my partner the
lovely Janeen Sorenson of Wild Vanilla Designs sent me...

Participants are paired and
they put together a soup for their partners. We then ship beads to each other.
When the beads our partners send arrive we add some ingredients from our own
stashes and complete the soup. All of the participants share about the
experience from beginning to end on their blogs. We won’t reveal our
masterpieces, until our reveal date, May 3, 2014. This will be the time to peruse and blog hop, the other half of the big party – so all can see
the many wonderful things that were created from the humble soups shared by all of the talented participants.

There has been exponential
growth yearly, as the talk and excitement this event spreads through the
beading community. Lori even wrote a book entitled Bead Soup and Kalmbach Jewelry Books hosted Bead Soup Contest in honor of the book’s launching.

Just think, a bowl full of
beads, the odd ones from a strand that wasn’t fully used, or perhaps weren’t
uniform in size… small pieces of chain, sari silk, the possibilities begin to
grow as the bowl fills. Old cast-offs begin to look different and new in their
surroundings. What pieces will become a soup that becomes a sensational dish.
Stay tuned and join in on the blog hopping so you can find out.

Here is what I sent to
Janeen. I can’t wait to see what she does with the ingredients!

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I love life, I get to love and be loved in the service of one another. I enjoy learning new things and sharing that information. I enjoy creating things out of reclaimed items, in so doing being a litlle gentler to the planet that hosts all of what I love. I have online shops and enjoy going to and working craft fairs and shows, some juried - others not, either way I get to mix and mingle and I feel like that's when I truly shine.